Iowa: Man Sentenced to 16-Years in Prison for Stealing, Burning LGBT Flag

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What in the hell is going on in America?

People can burn an American Flag and it is Free Speech.

I don’t have to like it but I am OK with a person’s right to express themselves.


But what if it’s an LGBT flag?
NEVADA, Iowa, December 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow “pride” flag on fire has been sentenced to prison for 16 years.

Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa was found guilty last month of having committed a “hate crime” – arson – plus reckless use of explosives or fire. "

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/12/20/iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison-for-stealing-burning-lgbt-flag/

Progressivism = Fascism.
Progs are authoritarian to their core.

fascism

"2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial controlearly instances of army fascism and brutality"

Definition of FASCISM

au·to·crat·ic
"taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; domineering."

It is a little more than the inflammatory headline. according to Man gets 15-plus years for burning gay pride flag
The June 11 incident took place after Martinez got kicked out of the Dangerous Curves strip club in Ames and threatened to come back and burn the bar down, per an Ames Police Department spokesman. Police were called to the scene shortly after midnight, which is when they found, burning in the street outside the bar, a car tire and a gay pride banner Martinez had ripped off the front of the Ames United Church of Christ, reported KCCI at the time.
If I have to kick you out of my house (not a strip club), your get mad and start threatening to come back and burn my house down, then you show up and try to start a tire fire with any rags, flag, flammables or explosive in front of my house (especially at night) I WILL put three into you from my porch, when you flick your Bic, including a head-shot and take my chances with a jury of my peers.
Martinez sounds like a dangerous man of low self control to me. I am not too outraged by choice of charges used to put him out of the way for a few years.

No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
 
You understood even before you posted this that your argument was going to be dishonest. He wouldn't have received any jail time if he had burned HIS flag .

Yeah I'm thinking this more along the lines of property damage....
Though I have to wonder if the roles were reversed and faggot Central burned this man's American flag instead if it would simply be considered first amendment rights.

Jo

No it would not. If you can find a single instance of someone stealing the property of another and burning it getting excused as free speech, then you might have a point. You aren't going to find it.

This is a complete non story if he had burned his own flag.
So the 15 years in prison is for stealing the flag?

You read the article.
 
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What in the hell is going on in America?

People can burn an American Flag and it is Free Speech.

I don’t have to like it but I am OK with a person’s right to express themselves.


But what if it’s an LGBT flag?
NEVADA, Iowa, December 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow “pride” flag on fire has been sentenced to prison for 16 years.

Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa was found guilty last month of having committed a “hate crime” – arson – plus reckless use of explosives or fire. "

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/12/20/iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison-for-stealing-burning-lgbt-flag/

Progressivism = Fascism.
Progs are authoritarian to their core.

fascism

"2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial controlearly instances of army fascism and brutality"

Definition of FASCISM

au·to·crat·ic
"taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; domineering."

It is a little more than the inflammatory headline. according to Man gets 15-plus years for burning gay pride flag
The June 11 incident took place after Martinez got kicked out of the Dangerous Curves strip club in Ames and threatened to come back and burn the bar down, per an Ames Police Department spokesman. Police were called to the scene shortly after midnight, which is when they found, burning in the street outside the bar, a car tire and a gay pride banner Martinez had ripped off the front of the Ames United Church of Christ, reported KCCI at the time.
If I have to kick you out of my house (not a strip club), your get mad and start threatening to come back and burn my house down, then you show up and try to start a tire fire with any rags, flag, flammables or explosive in front of my house (especially at night) I WILL put three into you from my porch, when you flick your Bic, including a head-shot and take my chances with a jury of my peers.
Martinez sounds like a dangerous man of low self control to me. I am not too outraged by choice of charges used to put him out of the way for a few years.

No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?
 
It was arson, elevated to a hate crime and further elevated as he was a habitual offender with two previous felonies and no sign of remorse.
He got the maximum penalty.

This is a good summary

Crime and Charges


Ames, Iowa, police arrested Martinez in the early hours of June 11, after police said he had caused a disturbance at a local bar and threatened to burn down the establishment, before returning with an LGBT rainbow flag he stole from the Ames United Church of Christ, and setting fire to it outside the bar. Martinez admitted to his crimes in an interview with KCCI, saying he was motivated by an antipathy towards homosexuality and that he had “burned down their pride, plain and simple.”

Despite his on-screen confession, Martinez pleaded not guilty to three charges, the Story County Attorney’s Office told Snopes: Third-degree arson, an aggravated misdemeanor which typically carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison; third-degree harassment, a simple misdemeanor; and reckless use of fire or explosives, a serious misdemeanor that typically carries a maximum prison sentence of one year.

On Nov. 6, a jury in Story County convicted Martinez on all three charges. The County Attorney’s Office confirmed to Snopes that Martinez was given a 30-day prison sentence for the charge of third-degree harassment, and a one-year sentence for reckless use of fire or explosives.

In the normal course of events, a conviction for third-degree arson would yield a maximum sentence of two years in prison. However, because the flag burned by Martinez was an LGBT symbol, and because Martinez himself said this was his motivation for setting fire to it, prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to the arson charge.

Iowa law requires that certain offenses, if prosecuted as a hate crime, must be “classified and punished as an offense one degree higher than the underlying offense.” Thus, Martinez’s conviction for third-degree arson was elevated from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony.

In Iowa, a Class D felony is typically subject to a maximum prison sentence of five years. However, Martinez had two previous felonies, details of which were not immediately available. Iowa law designates as an “habitual offender” anyone “convicted of a class ‘C’ or a class ‘D’ felony, who has twice before been convicted of any felony in a court of this or any other state, or of the United States.” Therefore, Martinez was sentenced as an habitual offender.

Iowa law states that the maximum sentence for an habitual offender is 15 years in prison. In this case, prosecutors recommended that maximum sentence, on the basis that they believed Martinez to be “very dangerous” and because of his lack of remorse. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told KCCI that Martinez “stated that there was nothing the judge could do to stop him from continuing this behavior, and that he would continue to do this, no matter what.”

On Dec. 18, the judge imposed that maximum sentence, to be served consecutively with the one-year sentence for reckless use of fire and 30-day sentence for third-degree harassment, yielding a total prison sentence of 16 years. Due to his status as an habitual offender, Martinez will not be eligible for parole until he has served a minimum of three years.

Conclusion
It’s true that the action that garnered Martinez a total prison sentence of 16 years was setting fire to an LGBT flag outside a bar in Ames, Iowa, in June 2019. However, this does not account for the length of his prison sentence.

If the object Martinez burned had been a neutral one (for example, a banner or flag bearing the logo of a brand of beer) then his third-degree arson conviction would not have been enhanced as a hate crime, and he would have received a sentence of no more than two years in prison, likely yielding a total sentence of three years, taking into account the one-year sentence he received for reckless use of fire. So it’s true that the fact it was an LGBT rainbow flag, specifically, did cause Martinez’ punishment to be increased. Because the hate crime enhancement converted the arson offense from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony, it also triggered the habitual offender mechanism.

However, that habitual offender mechanism would not have been triggered if Martinez did not already have two felony convictions. Without that criminal history, Martinez would simply have been given a sentence commensurate with a Class D felony, after the addition of the hate crime enhancement. Instead, because of his own previous convictions, his sentence for third-degree arson was tripled, from five years to 15 years.

The websites mentioned at the beginning of this article served their readers poorly by failing to provide this crucial contextual information and created the false impression that anyone, in any circumstances, was liable to be imprisoned for 16 years for burning an LGBT rainbow flag in the state of Iowa.

Did an Iowa Man Get 16 Years in Prison for Burning an LGBT Rainbow Flag?
I'd like to see this statement confirmed by some one rather than just the prosecutors word for it. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told KCCI that Martinez “stated that there was nothing the judge could do to stop him from continuing this behavior, and that he would continue to do this, no matter what.”
 
"
What in the hell is going on in America?

People can burn an American Flag and it is Free Speech.

I don’t have to like it but I am OK with a person’s right to express themselves.


But what if it’s an LGBT flag?
NEVADA, Iowa, December 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow “pride” flag on fire has been sentenced to prison for 16 years.

Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa was found guilty last month of having committed a “hate crime” – arson – plus reckless use of explosives or fire. "

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/12/20/iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison-for-stealing-burning-lgbt-flag/

Progressivism = Fascism.
Progs are authoritarian to their core.

fascism

"2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial controlearly instances of army fascism and brutality"

Definition of FASCISM

au·to·crat·ic
"taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; domineering."

It is a little more than the inflammatory headline. according to Man gets 15-plus years for burning gay pride flag
The June 11 incident took place after Martinez got kicked out of the Dangerous Curves strip club in Ames and threatened to come back and burn the bar down, per an Ames Police Department spokesman. Police were called to the scene shortly after midnight, which is when they found, burning in the street outside the bar, a car tire and a gay pride banner Martinez had ripped off the front of the Ames United Church of Christ, reported KCCI at the time.
If I have to kick you out of my house (not a strip club), your get mad and start threatening to come back and burn my house down, then you show up and try to start a tire fire with any rags, flag, flammables or explosive in front of my house (especially at night) I WILL put three into you from my porch, when you flick your Bic, including a head-shot and take my chances with a jury of my peers.
Martinez sounds like a dangerous man of low self control to me. I am not too outraged by choice of charges used to put him out of the way for a few years.

No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
 
It is a little more than the inflammatory headline. according to Man gets 15-plus years for burning gay pride flag
The June 11 incident took place after Martinez got kicked out of the Dangerous Curves strip club in Ames and threatened to come back and burn the bar down, per an Ames Police Department spokesman. Police were called to the scene shortly after midnight, which is when they found, burning in the street outside the bar, a car tire and a gay pride banner Martinez had ripped off the front of the Ames United Church of Christ, reported KCCI at the time.
If I have to kick you out of my house (not a strip club), your get mad and start threatening to come back and burn my house down, then you show up and try to start a tire fire with any rags, flag, flammables or explosive in front of my house (especially at night) I WILL put three into you from my porch, when you flick your Bic, including a head-shot and take my chances with a jury of my peers.
Martinez sounds like a dangerous man of low self control to me. I am not too outraged by choice of charges used to put him out of the way for a few years.

No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
Check the facts. We lit one up this year.
 
It was arson, elevated to a hate crime and further elevated as he was a habitual offender with two previous felonies and no sign of remorse.
He got the maximum penalty.

This is a good summary

Crime and Charges


Ames, Iowa, police arrested Martinez in the early hours of June 11, after police said he had caused a disturbance at a local bar and threatened to burn down the establishment, before returning with an LGBT rainbow flag he stole from the Ames United Church of Christ, and setting fire to it outside the bar. Martinez admitted to his crimes in an interview with KCCI, saying he was motivated by an antipathy towards homosexuality and that he had “burned down their pride, plain and simple.”

Despite his on-screen confession, Martinez pleaded not guilty to three charges, the Story County Attorney’s Office told Snopes: Third-degree arson, an aggravated misdemeanor which typically carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison; third-degree harassment, a simple misdemeanor; and reckless use of fire or explosives, a serious misdemeanor that typically carries a maximum prison sentence of one year.

On Nov. 6, a jury in Story County convicted Martinez on all three charges. The County Attorney’s Office confirmed to Snopes that Martinez was given a 30-day prison sentence for the charge of third-degree harassment, and a one-year sentence for reckless use of fire or explosives.

In the normal course of events, a conviction for third-degree arson would yield a maximum sentence of two years in prison. However, because the flag burned by Martinez was an LGBT symbol, and because Martinez himself said this was his motivation for setting fire to it, prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to the arson charge.

Iowa law requires that certain offenses, if prosecuted as a hate crime, must be “classified and punished as an offense one degree higher than the underlying offense.” Thus, Martinez’s conviction for third-degree arson was elevated from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony.

In Iowa, a Class D felony is typically subject to a maximum prison sentence of five years. However, Martinez had two previous felonies, details of which were not immediately available. Iowa law designates as an “habitual offender” anyone “convicted of a class ‘C’ or a class ‘D’ felony, who has twice before been convicted of any felony in a court of this or any other state, or of the United States.” Therefore, Martinez was sentenced as an habitual offender.

Iowa law states that the maximum sentence for an habitual offender is 15 years in prison. In this case, prosecutors recommended that maximum sentence, on the basis that they believed Martinez to be “very dangerous” and because of his lack of remorse. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told KCCI that Martinez “stated that there was nothing the judge could do to stop him from continuing this behavior, and that he would continue to do this, no matter what.”

On Dec. 18, the judge imposed that maximum sentence, to be served consecutively with the one-year sentence for reckless use of fire and 30-day sentence for third-degree harassment, yielding a total prison sentence of 16 years. Due to his status as an habitual offender, Martinez will not be eligible for parole until he has served a minimum of three years.

Conclusion
It’s true that the action that garnered Martinez a total prison sentence of 16 years was setting fire to an LGBT flag outside a bar in Ames, Iowa, in June 2019. However, this does not account for the length of his prison sentence.

If the object Martinez burned had been a neutral one (for example, a banner or flag bearing the logo of a brand of beer) then his third-degree arson conviction would not have been enhanced as a hate crime, and he would have received a sentence of no more than two years in prison, likely yielding a total sentence of three years, taking into account the one-year sentence he received for reckless use of fire. So it’s true that the fact it was an LGBT rainbow flag, specifically, did cause Martinez’ punishment to be increased. Because the hate crime enhancement converted the arson offense from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony, it also triggered the habitual offender mechanism.

However, that habitual offender mechanism would not have been triggered if Martinez did not already have two felony convictions. Without that criminal history, Martinez would simply have been given a sentence commensurate with a Class D felony, after the addition of the hate crime enhancement. Instead, because of his own previous convictions, his sentence for third-degree arson was tripled, from five years to 15 years.

The websites mentioned at the beginning of this article served their readers poorly by failing to provide this crucial contextual information and created the false impression that anyone, in any circumstances, was liable to be imprisoned for 16 years for burning an LGBT rainbow flag in the state of Iowa.

Did an Iowa Man Get 16 Years in Prison for Burning an LGBT Rainbow Flag?

Based on this summary, I do not have a terribly difficult time believing that on the whole, this mute donkey probably deserved six years and a month in prison. Still, however, I have a •BIG• problem with this…

If the object Martinez burned had been a neutral one (for example, a banner or flag bearing the logo of a brand of beer) then his third-degree arson conviction would not have been enhanced as a hate crime, and he would have received a sentence of no more than two years in prison, likely yielding a total sentence of three years, taking into account the one-year sentence he received for reckless use of fire. So it’s true that the fact it was an LGBT rainbow flag, specifically, did cause Martinez’ punishment to be increased.

What this gets down to is that a “hate crime” (or, as Orwell, more aptly would call it, a thoughtcrime), resulted in a significantly-increased punishment. There is no getting around the undeniable fact that this punishes him, not for any genuine criminal activity, but for thinking and expressing a thought that is deemed politically-incorrect. There is no honest, rational way to reconcile this with the freedom of expression affirmed in the First Amendment. Agree with him or not, he has an absolute right to hate homosexuals, or any other group he chooses to hate, and he has an absolute right to let others know he does so; and government has absolutely no authority whatsoever, to punish anyone for that.
 
I'd like to see this statement confirmed by some one rather than just the prosecutors word for it. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told KCCI that Martinez “stated that there was nothing the judge could do to stop him from continuing this behavior, and that he would continue to do this, no matter what.”

What behavior? Genuine crime, such as stealing and destroying other people's property, or the thoughtcrime of expressing that he hates homosexuals?
 
No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
Check the facts. We lit one up this year.

What state?
 
It was arson, elevated to a hate crime and further elevated as he was a habitual offender with two previous felonies and no sign of remorse.
He got the maximum penalty.

This is a good summary

Crime and Charges


Ames, Iowa, police arrested Martinez in the early hours of June 11, after police said he had caused a disturbance at a local bar and threatened to burn down the establishment, before returning with an LGBT rainbow flag he stole from the Ames United Church of Christ, and setting fire to it outside the bar. Martinez admitted to his crimes in an interview with KCCI, saying he was motivated by an antipathy towards homosexuality and that he had “burned down their pride, plain and simple.”

Despite his on-screen confession, Martinez pleaded not guilty to three charges, the Story County Attorney’s Office told Snopes: Third-degree arson, an aggravated misdemeanor which typically carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison; third-degree harassment, a simple misdemeanor; and reckless use of fire or explosives, a serious misdemeanor that typically carries a maximum prison sentence of one year.

On Nov. 6, a jury in Story County convicted Martinez on all three charges. The County Attorney’s Office confirmed to Snopes that Martinez was given a 30-day prison sentence for the charge of third-degree harassment, and a one-year sentence for reckless use of fire or explosives.

In the normal course of events, a conviction for third-degree arson would yield a maximum sentence of two years in prison. However, because the flag burned by Martinez was an LGBT symbol, and because Martinez himself said this was his motivation for setting fire to it, prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to the arson charge.

Iowa law requires that certain offenses, if prosecuted as a hate crime, must be “classified and punished as an offense one degree higher than the underlying offense.” Thus, Martinez’s conviction for third-degree arson was elevated from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony.

In Iowa, a Class D felony is typically subject to a maximum prison sentence of five years. However, Martinez had two previous felonies, details of which were not immediately available. Iowa law designates as an “habitual offender” anyone “convicted of a class ‘C’ or a class ‘D’ felony, who has twice before been convicted of any felony in a court of this or any other state, or of the United States.” Therefore, Martinez was sentenced as an habitual offender.

Iowa law states that the maximum sentence for an habitual offender is 15 years in prison. In this case, prosecutors recommended that maximum sentence, on the basis that they believed Martinez to be “very dangerous” and because of his lack of remorse. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told KCCI that Martinez “stated that there was nothing the judge could do to stop him from continuing this behavior, and that he would continue to do this, no matter what.”

On Dec. 18, the judge imposed that maximum sentence, to be served consecutively with the one-year sentence for reckless use of fire and 30-day sentence for third-degree harassment, yielding a total prison sentence of 16 years. Due to his status as an habitual offender, Martinez will not be eligible for parole until he has served a minimum of three years.

Conclusion
It’s true that the action that garnered Martinez a total prison sentence of 16 years was setting fire to an LGBT flag outside a bar in Ames, Iowa, in June 2019. However, this does not account for the length of his prison sentence.

If the object Martinez burned had been a neutral one (for example, a banner or flag bearing the logo of a brand of beer) then his third-degree arson conviction would not have been enhanced as a hate crime, and he would have received a sentence of no more than two years in prison, likely yielding a total sentence of three years, taking into account the one-year sentence he received for reckless use of fire. So it’s true that the fact it was an LGBT rainbow flag, specifically, did cause Martinez’ punishment to be increased. Because the hate crime enhancement converted the arson offense from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony, it also triggered the habitual offender mechanism.

However, that habitual offender mechanism would not have been triggered if Martinez did not already have two felony convictions. Without that criminal history, Martinez would simply have been given a sentence commensurate with a Class D felony, after the addition of the hate crime enhancement. Instead, because of his own previous convictions, his sentence for third-degree arson was tripled, from five years to 15 years.

The websites mentioned at the beginning of this article served their readers poorly by failing to provide this crucial contextual information and created the false impression that anyone, in any circumstances, was liable to be imprisoned for 16 years for burning an LGBT rainbow flag in the state of Iowa.

Did an Iowa Man Get 16 Years in Prison for Burning an LGBT Rainbow Flag?
I'd like to see this statement confirmed by some one rather than just the prosecutors word for it. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told KCCI that Martinez “stated that there was nothing the judge could do to stop him from continuing this behavior, and that he would continue to do this, no matter what.”
It was good enough for a jury of his peers.
 
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
Check the facts. We lit one up this year.

What state?
Tennessee execution: Stephen Michael West dies by electric chair
Check it out.
 
It is a little more than the inflammatory headline. according to Man gets 15-plus years for burning gay pride flag
The June 11 incident took place after Martinez got kicked out of the Dangerous Curves strip club in Ames and threatened to come back and burn the bar down, per an Ames Police Department spokesman. Police were called to the scene shortly after midnight, which is when they found, burning in the street outside the bar, a car tire and a gay pride banner Martinez had ripped off the front of the Ames United Church of Christ, reported KCCI at the time.
If I have to kick you out of my house (not a strip club), your get mad and start threatening to come back and burn my house down, then you show up and try to start a tire fire with any rags, flag, flammables or explosive in front of my house (especially at night) I WILL put three into you from my porch, when you flick your Bic, including a head-shot and take my chances with a jury of my peers.
Martinez sounds like a dangerous man of low self control to me. I am not too outraged by choice of charges used to put him out of the way for a few years.

No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.


Most states that's true. But I thought that Tennessee just sent someone to the Electric Chair. And I was under the impression Utah still uses their traditional Firing Squad.
 
No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.
Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.

Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.


Most states that's true. But I thought that Tennessee just sent someone to the Electric Chair. And I was under the impression Utah still uses their traditional Firing Squad.
Gutsy move to stand in front of firing squad.
 
Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
Check the facts. We lit one up this year.

What state?
Tennessee execution: Stephen Michael West dies by electric chair
Check it out.

I already did, and that was his choice.
 
Go ahead and shoot someone NOT on your property from your front porch. You will strapped to a table with a needle in your arm!

You are stupid beyond belief if you think a jury would take more than enough time to read the charges and vote to convict you!
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
Check the facts. We lit one up this year.

What state?
Tennessee execution: Stephen Michael West dies by electric chair
Check it out.


The Electric Chair isn't that green friendly as it take fossil fuels to generate the juice. The Gas chamber has greenhouse gases which also contributes to global warming.

Firing squads lead to noise pollution which is disturbing to wildlife and the ecosystem.

Hanging is probably the most earth friendly, as the ropes can be reused multiple times.
 
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
Check the facts. We lit one up this year.

What state?
Tennessee execution: Stephen Michael West dies by electric chair
Check it out.

I already did, and that was his choice.
Oh! So now you are Pro-Choice.
 
Actually we still use Old Sparky. Why, you planning on starting something at my place, getting asked to leave, threatening to burn my house down, coming back with the means to do it and lighting up?

No you don't, since the primary method execution is lethal injection in all states where capital punishment is legal.

If they do not enter your property, your castle doctrine would not apply, so stop being a moron.
Check the facts. We lit one up this year.

What state?
Tennessee execution: Stephen Michael West dies by electric chair
Check it out.


The Electric Chair isn't that green friendly as it take fossil fuels to generate the juice. The Gas chamber has greenhouse gases which also contributes to global warming.

Firing squads lead to noise pollution which is disturbing to wildlife and the ecosystem.

Hanging is probably the most earth friendly, as the ropes can be reused multiple times.
Good Hemp Rope. Keep Colorado Green. :)
 
An Iowa man who was arrested after tearing down and burning an LGBTQ flag that was hanging at a church will spend at least 15 years behind bars, according to reports.
Iowa Man Gets 15 Years in Prison Over Burning LGBTQ Flag



For the ass hats who think they are a protected class you idiots are so stupid you have no idea how severely you dumb m.f.;s are being politically used -------- there's a carpet about to be ripped right out from under your stuck up asses. Oh it won't be today maybe not even tomorrow but you can nbet your pathetic asses the LIGHT always Wins over the DARK bitches!!!


THIS IS HOW RETARDED YOU LOSERS WHO ARE ( ANTI AMERICAN PRICKS) IF YOU THINK FORCING LAWS MAKES PPL LIKE YOU OR " NOT " HATE YOU , IT'S SAD TO SAY YOU DO NOT LIVE IN REALITY AND SHOULD WAKE THE HELL UP)


ISLAM IS RIGHT ABOUT TRANSEXUALS :auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg:

Actually he is about to receive an all-expenses-paid 16 year course in homosexuality.

More fascists should be offered this benefit.
 
An Iowa man who was arrested after tearing down and burning an LGBTQ flag that was hanging at a church will spend at least 15 years behind bars, according to reports.
Iowa Man Gets 15 Years in Prison Over Burning LGBTQ Flag



For the ass hats who think they are a protected class you idiots are so stupid you have no idea how severely you dumb m.f.;s are being politically used -------- there's a carpet about to be ripped right out from under your stuck up asses. Oh it won't be today maybe not even tomorrow but you can nbet your pathetic asses the LIGHT always Wins over the DARK bitches!!!


THIS IS HOW RETARDED YOU LOSERS WHO ARE ( ANTI AMERICAN PRICKS) IF YOU THINK FORCING LAWS MAKES PPL LIKE YOU OR " NOT " HATE YOU , IT'S SAD TO SAY YOU DO NOT LIVE IN REALITY AND SHOULD WAKE THE HELL UP)


ISLAM IS RIGHT ABOUT TRANSEXUALS :auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg:

Actually he is about to receive an all-expenses-paid 16 year course in homosexuality.

More fascist should be offered this benefit.


You are right that there are a lot of gay guys in Prison, and many of them are seeking to convert people to their preferences. This gentleman may well have to fight for his manhood.
 

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